As for Schumann's rhythmic notation, I guess it's the result of both poetic and practical deliberations. So, one aspect may be that the crotchets in the original are meant to express single, 'poetically long' notes. The other aspect is that a rhythmically correct notation, as below, would look consi...

Slurs intersecting note stems do not disturb me, as slurs normally intersect other objects, staff and bar lines for example. Of course the slurs avoiding the stems in the examples above do not disturb me either. Here are the first two systems in an older Peters edition. It would have looked even bet...

Well, perhaps I should have said rather happy, not quite happy. What really annoys me with Finale's slurs is this default behaviour: Finale slurs and stem direction shift.PNG How does Dorico do this, per default? I would be surprised if this hasn't been addressed before in this forum, but when I tri...

Traditionally, any default is always the wrong choice, and the important thing is that they can be changed to one's liking. I've found Finale's Slurs settings (in three separate dialogs) rather hard to understand, and I've largely just blindly copied numbers from forum posts to improve things. Dori...

Anders, there has been a lot of discussion of Dorico's slurs because the default inherent slur shape (as opposed to the varying contours of the slurs as used in all the different situations) is quite different from Finale's. However, with setting changes, Dorico can achieve slurs that are comparabl...